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salary of eighteen pounds per annum, which was considered quite 

 an income in those days. 



Mr. William Forster, who subsequently opposed Judge Lewis 

 Morris in the election for representative in the Assembly, is next 

 mentioned as the schoolmaster at Westchester. His remuneration 

 was ten pounds per annum and a gratuity of ten pounds. 

 He served until 1743, and the following year was succeeded 

 by Mr. Basil Bartow, the son of the Rev. John Bartow, 

 who held the position until 1762. There was a vacancy for 

 two years which was filled by Mr. Nathaniel Seabury, a son 

 of the Society's missionary at Hempstead, Long Island, and a 

 brother of the Rev. Samuel Seabury, rector of the parish. The 

 power of appointment had been vested by the Propagation Society 

 in the rector; George Youngs succeeded Nathaniel Seabury in 1768, 

 and served until 1772. There was a vacancy again for two years, 

 and in 1774 Mr. Gott accepted the appointment and held the office 

 until the Revolution. After the war the school passed from the 

 authority of the church to that of the town. 



It was not, however, until 1874, when the Twenty-third and 

 the Twenty-fourth Wards were annexed to New York City and 

 the schools passed under the control of the Board of Education, 

 that they developed to any degree of efficiency. 



Since the consolidation of the Greater City in 1897, the public 

 school system in the Borough has reached its highest mark. From 

 a small number of scattered schools with a few thousand pupils 

 there has grown a school population of 86,000, housed in fifty ele- 

 mentary school buildings and one secondary school. There is a class 

 for crippled children in Public School No. 4 at Prospect Avenue 

 and One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Street. They are transported 

 to and from the school by means of two stages. Open-air classes 

 are provided for enemic children, who are ' supplied with free 

 lunches and sitting-out paraphernalia. 



Besides these schools there are within the Borough limits 

 twenty parochial schools and the two great universities — New York 

 and Fordham. 



The New York University, founded in 1831, ranks among the 

 foremost institutions of learning in the United States. The 

 founders had an idea of grandeur and beauty when they selected 

 this spot for the celebrated college. It is charmingly situated on a 

 forty-acre elevation on Fordham Heights and overlooks the Harlem 



